Frederick Melland

Frederick Neville Shinwell Melland was a British lacrosse and ice hockey player who competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics. He was born in Manchester in 1904 and died in Swansea in 1990. He studied at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford, where he played lacrosse, toured the United States with a lacrosse side in 1926 and captained the England lacrosse team in 1932. In ice hockey he was part of the British national team that finished fourth at the 1928 Olympics. He also played tennis, reaching the mixed doubles at Wimbledon in 1936 and the semi-finals of the men's doubles at the Northern Tournament in 1940, and he later worked as a lacrosse referee. He was a nephew of the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith.